U.S. policy makers are learning that they are not the only players in the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) game, even if they are the only team in the big leagues. In recent months, Russian weapons labs have pursued an active-if somewhat clandestine-campaign to jump-start their own science-based stockpile stewardship program. They have done so by acquiring two Silicon Graphics servers and one large IBM supercomputer. In both cases, the Ministry of Atomic Energy (Min-atom) was able to circumvent U.S. export controls designed to keep sophisticated computer hardware out of the hands of Russia's weapons designers.
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